Tuesday Trash Day Roundup Deluxe
I’m not sure what makes it deluxe, exactly. It appears to be just like a regular Tuesday Trash Day Roundup. But the intertunnel is all about marketing, n’est ce pas? I can’t just leave it at that. I have to excite the audience, right there in the headline, or they won’t even tune in. You can always disappoint them with everything after the initial come-on. This was also my approach to dating.
On to the roundup! It’s premium.
Results show the generative chatbot condition significantly increased false memory formation, inducing over 3 times more immediate false memories than the control and 1.7 times more than the survey method. 36.4% of users’ responses to the generative chatbot were misled through the interaction.
Like Marcus Aurelius once said, “You shouldn’t believe everything you see on the internet.”
America’s Oldest Board Game Teaches 19th-Century Geography
Players start at Washington and race to reach New Orleans first by taking turns spinning a teetotum, an alternative to dice, as that was seen as a symbol of gambling. The educational board game fits its description as an “instructive pastime” as players have to name the city to move forward and, in a harder version of the game, be able to guess the urban population.
After the first article, I’m unsure whether Arkansas is actually a place.
Is College Still Worth It? (via Cultural Offering)
The results show that college is still worth it—sometimes. The median four-year degree program increases students’ lifetime earnings by $160,000, after accounting for college costs and dropout risk. But not every degree performs so well. Nearly a quarter of four-year programs show no return on investment (ROI), meaning that students typically wind up no better off than if they never went to college. But plenty of degrees deliver returns significantly above the median—and some boost students’ net lifetime earnings by more than $1 million.
Where else are you going to learn how to clutch a Solo cup properly?
Business Attire For The Fashion Conscious. (via Execupundit)
Do you struggle with balancing comfort with utility in your daily business attire? You can never go wrong with the classic short sleeved white shirt, and tie. Also, make sure you wear comfortable shoes and socks. Keep cool with shorts, but keep that shirt tucked in. You don’t want to appear too informal for those business meetings.
Do not click through to the link while drinking any beverage, if you value your monitor.
In This Beautiful Library, Bats Guard the Books
In the daytime—as scholars lean over historic works and visitors admire the architecture—the bats roost quietly behind the two-story bookshelves. At night, they swoop around the darkened building, eating the beetles and moths that would otherwise do a number on all that old paper and binding glue.
In our local library, perverts stationed at computers just inside the front door guard the books. I’d prefer bats.
a brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks
In need of a practical way to overcome social isolation; communicate emergencies, weather, and crop prices; and chafing under attempts to curtail free speech, ranchers and farmers began to take advantage of the growing ubiquity of both telephone sets and barbed wire fencing. They would hook up telephones to wire strung from their homes to a nearby fence; at the time, telephones had their own battery which produced a DC current that could carry a voice signal; turning a crank on the phone would generate an AC current to produce a ring at the end of the line. Bob Holmes elaborates on the process: “the barbed wire networks had no central exchange, no operators–and no monthly bill. Instead of ringing through the exchange to a single address, every call made every phone on the system ring. Soon each household had its own personal ringtone…but anyone could pick up…Talk was free, and so people soon began to ‘hang out’ on the phone.” The fence phone lines could also be used to broadcast urgent information to everyone on the line.
Used for barbed remarks, with a sharp followup, no doubt.
Is Our Future a Blue Screen of Death?
Microsoft estimates the CrowdStrike outage affected 8.5 million Windows devices. That’s an unprecedented breakdown. But it is also a reminder that the problem could have been so much worse: The afflicted computers represent less than 1 percent of Windows devices around the world. Still, the CrowdStrike crash—or BSOD24 as I’m calling it—should be a global wake-up call.
I’ve always said the old ways are generally the best ways. So I propose we run the internet through barbed wire fencing from now on. I’m willing to put a hand crank on my old Dell desktop, and I’ll gladly suffer the occasional tingle when I’m out mending fences and my neighbor tries to buy something from Amazon.
This Company Says It Uses Your Phone’s Mic to Serve Ads for Facebook, Google, and More
In a pitch deck that has surfaced since the initial story broke out, Cox Media Group (CMG), a digital marketing outfit based out of Atlanta, Georgia, was spotted touting “the power of voice” in a pitch. In it, they outlined how they can use AI to collect and analyze voice data from users through more than 470 sources. All of which can then be used by advertisers to target “in-market consumers” (users) when combining the voice data with behavioral data to identify an audience who is “ready-to-buy” in a targeted 10-mile radius (can go up to 20-mile).
We’re going to have to go to Dante Alighieri’s Circle Takeout Cafe to find the appropriate place to send these guys.
That’s it for today’s batch of topics. Have a superb, Number One, bespoke, high end, luxurious Tuesday, everyone! *
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